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The government already deploys drones, facial recognition, and sensors. How much smarter can we get? By Benjamin O. Powers As the debate over a border wall surges back and forth, with the most recent development being Trump’s declaration of a national emergency to allocate the billions of dollars in funding he wants, other lawmakers have

Salon, Vogue, and others on the unexamined epidemic of violence against women. There were five mass shootings this week. All of them were acts of violence again women. In the most shocking, a 21-year-old man walked into a Florida bank, lined up five women and executed them. Also killed this week: mothers, girlfriends, and ex-girlfriends,

In the absence of rigorous science, psychologists disagree about using the neurobiology of stress to defend police officers who kill. By Zachary Siegel On October 2, 2018, police psychologist Laurence Miller took the stand to testify in the defense of Jason Van Dyke, a white police officer who shot Laquan McDonald, a black teenager from

Here we are on the precipice of a new year. If you’re like us, you found it tough to keep abreast of 2018’s relentless stream of breaking news. Making time for deep reads may have been nearly impossible. No worries. Our editorial team has put together a list of their favorite security-related reads of the

To protect the public from Las Vegas-style attacks, the government must review these too. The Justice Department this week delivered its long-promised ban on bump stocks, a device that gun owners can affix to the back of their semi-automatic rifles to increase the rate of fire. While the ban has widespread support, it has also